Shel, That's true for the plains tribes. It's not for the north american native population of which they were a small fraction.
The examples you site occured centuries after the original vigin field epidemics that I'm referring to. In fact those epidemics and that major die-off are how the Europeans learned about the suscebtibility to european diseases of the native population. -Adam Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Not true ... they were purposely infected with smallpox and possibly other > diseases, and the plains Indians had there main food source, the buffalo, > almost completed wiped out. It was genocide, pure and simple. > > Shel > > > >> [Original Message] >> From: Adam Maas > >> The primary reason for the massive population drop wasn't wholesale >> slaughter. It was the unthinking introduction of several virulent and >> deadly diseases to a population with essentially no resistances to them. >> And frankly there was no way the Europeans would have had any inkling of >> how dangerous that was. >> >> This isn't to say that the survivors weren't treated extremely badly. >> But the population crash wasn't caused by wholesale slaughter. > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
